261 Quotes by Max Brooks

It wasn’t perfect, but it would do for a few seconds, long enough to hole up and wait for the shooting to die down. Only it didn’t. Pistols, shotguns, and that clatter you never forget, the kind that tells you someone has a Kalashnikov.

They didn’t break me. I broke myself.

We split the atom, we reached the moon, we’ve filled every household and business with more gadgets and gizmos than early sci-fi writers could have ever dreamed of.

How do you effectively separate the infected from the others? How.

Turn on the TV,” he’d say. “What are you seeing? People selling their products? No. People selling the fear of you having to live without their products.” Fuckin’ A, was he right. Fear of aging, fear of loneliness, fear of poverty, fear of failure. Fear is the most basic emotion we have. Fear is primal. Fear sells. That was my mantra. “Fear sells.

Keep focused! Keep going!

You assume things, like whatever country has more firepower wins the wars, and that’s actually not true at all.

Moo,” she answered, which could only be taken for “Why not?

The monsters that rose from the dead, they are nothing compared to the ones we carry in our hearts.